Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites with autoplay video
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 12 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Sites capture keyboard and controller input, so ESC and other keys trigger unwanted video actions2026-05-12
- Moving animations and autoplaying video make text hard to read2025-07-31
- Videos blare audio over other playing sound and can't be easily silenced or hidden2022-05-17
- Videos auto-play with sound, follow the page as you scroll, and must be manually stopped2021-08-24
- Video box sticks on mobile, forcing awkward scrolling to keep reading2021-06-12
- Blocked videos show no visible play option, so users must guess and right-click to play2020-09-10
- Autoplay videos follow you and modals interrupt reading, making pages distracting2019-05-10
- Pages have autoplaying videos that follow you around and text that keeps moving, making them hard to read2018-10-07
- Videos pop up and start playing while trying to read a website2017-02-04
- Autoplaying unrelated videos interrupt reading and redirect the page2015-11-19
- Landing-page videos take too long to load, so the user closes the site2013-07-05
- Videos auto-play with sound, so user must hunt for the noisy tab2013-02-18